Research areas	Condensed Matter Physics
Keywords	Keywords Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Photoemission Spectroscopy, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Synchrotron Radiation
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Major publications	Y. Chen, A. Meléndez-Sans, S. Kimura, L. H. Tjeng, S. G. Altendorf, “Epitaxial YbN thin films grown by nitrogen plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy”, Phys. Rev. Mater. 9, 123403 (2025). Y. Chen, T. Nakamura, H. Watanabe, T. Suzuki, Q. Ren, K. Liu, Y. Zhong, T. Kanai, J. Itatani, S. Shin, K. Okazaki, K. Imura, H. S. Suzuki, N. K. Sato and S. Kimura, “Photo-Induced Nonlinear Band Shift and Valence Transition in SmS”, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 94, 013702 (2025). H. Watanabe, Y. Takeno, Y. Negoro, R. Ikeda, Y. Shibata, Y. Chen, T. Nakamura, K. Yamagami, Y. Hirata, Y. Zhang, R. Takahashi, H. Watati, K. Tamasaku, K. Imura, H. S. Suzuki, N. K. Sato and S. Kimura, “Photoinduced phase transition on black samarium monosulfide”, Phys. Rev. B 110, 245133 (2024). T. Nakamura, H. Sugihara, Y. Chen, R. Yukawa, Y. Ohtsubo, K. Tanaka, M. Kitamura, H. Kumigashira and S. Kimura, “Two-Dimensional Heavy Fermion in a Monoatomic-Layer Kondo Lattice YbCu2”, Nat. Commun. 14, 7850 (2023).
Professional societies/Research and synergic activities	The Physical Society of Japan (JPS) The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) The Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research (JSSRR) The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science (JVSS)
Teaching Areas	Undergraduate courses Introduction to Natural Sciences A Elementary Course of Experimental Physics Graduate courses (Master's program) Fundamentals for Transdisciplinary Research 10 General Aspects of Materials Correlations Graduate courses (Doctor's program) Undergraduate courses open to all departments
Background	Jul. 2016 The High School Affiliated to Yunnan Normal University Sep. 2016 – Jun. 2020 B.Sc. in physics, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University Apr. 2021 – Mar. 2023 M.Sc. in physics, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, the University of Osaka Apr. 2023 – Mar. 2026 Ph.D. in physics, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, the University of Osaka (Research Internship at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Sep. 2024 – Dec. 2024, Aug. 2025 – Nov. 2025) Apr. 2026 – Present Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University